Influencer fraud, liveable cities and the Israel taboo

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We’re kicking off the new year with a heady mix of urban policy, cake-based scandal and political controversy. Find out which European city ranks as the most ‘liveable’ in Good Week, and dive into the fraud case embroiling Italian mega-influencer Chiara Ferragni in Bad Week. And in this week’s interview, hear from historian Quinn Slobodian about the parallel he sees between the current discourse around Israel-Palestine in Germany, and events 50 years ago. FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: https://europeanspodcast.com/episodes/influencer-fraud-liveable-cities-and-the-israel-taboo Quinn is Professor of History at Boston University. You can follow him on Twitter here and read his New Statesman article, ‘Germany’s new years of lead’, here. Resources for this episode: Report on the quality of life in European cities, 2023 ‘How to define genocide’: an interview with historian Omer Bartov in The New Yorker German police statistics on politically-motivated crimes ‘Oral’ by Björk and Rosalía Continental Riffs The Guardian: ‘New “riskier” wave of British musicals to challenge West End’s established order’ Tickets for Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few bucks a month at ⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/europeanspodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ (many currencies are available). You can also help new listeners find the show by ⁠⁠⁠⁠leaving us a review⁠⁠⁠⁠ or giving us five stars on Spotify. 00:22 Happy 2024, listeners! 02:57 Good Week: Europe's most liveable city? 08:17 Bad Week: Italian mega-influencer Chiara Ferragni 20:49 Interview: Quinn Slobodian on Germany's history of 'militant democracy' 40:31 The Inspiration Station: 'Oral' by Björk and Rosalía; Continental Riffs; Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) 44:12 Happy Ending: Rodney's helping hand Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠ Threads |⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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0:00.0	We're back. We're back. It's great. It's cold. It's January. It's 2024. And this is the Europeans podcast. We're here to satisfy that European itch you didn't even know you had. Happy New Year, Katie.
0:36.3	Happy New Year. It's great.
0:38.0	It's cold.
0:38.8	That's going to really get everyone's juices flowing for a new year of podcasts.
0:43.2	It is absolutely freezing, though.
0:44.7	Do you know what?
0:45.3	When I saw you just after the New Year, you were wearing this weird wooden hood that I said
0:51.5	made you look a bit like a medieval executioner.
0:55.7	But now that it's insanely cold,
1:01.1	I'm actually very jealous of it. I want one. Thank you. I think. And it was Kashmir.
1:06.0	It was my Christmas present from my husband. Very practical. I think we call it a snud. No?
1:09.2	I don't know. As you'll hear later in the show, I don't know anything about fashion.
1:13.1	Should we say who we are? Because it's a new year and people might have forgotten our names.
1:21.3	Yeah, and also because I think we have quite a few new listeners. A lot of people seem to have found the Europeans via the mini-series that we made about Oatley over the holidays.
1:29.7	So, hello, new listeners. I'm Katie. I'm in Paris. I'm Dominic and I'm in Amsterdam and we're old friends who like to get together each week and talk about Europe. Yeah, and Europe in a very broad sense. So we talk about
1:34.5	what's been happening in European politics and also European culture and life in general. And
1:39.8	we generally try to celebrate Europe as being about much more than decisions that get made in Brussels.
1:45.5	Is that a good summary?
1:46.4	Yeah, and the only thing I'd add is maybe that we also try to talk about stories that maybe aren't getting a lot of attention from the mainstream media.
1:52.9	Or if they are, then we try and look at them from a slightly different angle that you wouldn't expect.
1:58.7	So does that mean that I'm not allowed to talk about our handsome
2:01.3	new French Prime Minister? You're not allowed to talk about the handsome new French
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